Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
Slope / Gradient. The concept of slope is used in various sections of mathematics and worked with quite often when solving and graphing linear equations. The slope or degree of slant of a line is defined as the degree of steepness or incline of the line.radient in Geometry. In geometry, given a line that makes an angle Î¸ with the x-axis, the slope m is defined as. In geometry, the gradients of a lines can be used to determine their relationship i.e. whether the lines are parallel to each other or perpendicular. For example: Given two lines with slopes m1 and m2.